Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Here is the first of the red and gold tea cups. The outside has a simple floral decoration, but there is a lot of detail on the inside of the tea cup.

You can see a pretty pheasant by a fence in a field with trees, flowers. It's quite colourful and pretty.

It seems that this pattern was also made in blue as well. I was not able to tell the age of this cup, but it may have been produced between 1936-1948. E Brain and Co owned this company between the dates of 1903 - 1963. This is the first piece of china that I have that was produced by Foley.

Here I've pared it with one of my mix-match saucers. Works pretty good I think!

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Here is the first red and gold plate I will share. Based on an internet search of the back stamp, this saucer was produced any time after 1947, as this is when they added the phrase "Fine English Bone China" to their back stamp. The company was later taken over by the Wedgewood Group, and eventually the back stamp was written as "Royal Tuscan" until that brand was no longer used.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

So we went to one of our favourite Antique Malls, and they were having a 'sale' out in their parking lot. I picked up a box for $10 ... a bit more that I usually like to spend on china ... however, a peek inside the box promised some treasures I would have fun looking through.